"Real Life Facebook" Asks What Facebook Friendships Are Worth in Real Life

Yahoo News - over 4 years

You know how sometimes you look through your Facebook feed and think, "wait, how did I become friends with this person? Where do I even know them from? Have we even met?" It happens to a lot of us, and it is a problem that YouTube filmmaker Greg Benson thought of a novel solution for: He would find these people in real life, and after meeting them, ask them if they would like to remain Facebook friends. It's a decidedly brave adventure to talk in person with people one has never met, but they are "friends" after all, right?

Father's Day is about honoring the great Dads out there who have really made a difference in their children's lives. And what better way to recognize the great parents than pranking people with examples of horrible parents? The "Bad Parenting" countdown includes the classic "stroller down an escalator" trick, a dad who blows smoke into his infants eyes, another dad dropping his baby in a subway and more! And it's all hosted by YouTube's resident prank-master, Greg Benson.
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It's no cruise ship, but that hasn't stopped comedian Greg Benson from giving another "f***in' video tour.
Benson's whirlwind tour of Sin City includes all the usual suspects -- "f***in casinos, f***in buffets, f***in souvenir shops" -- and a couple of hilarious surprises. Just look at that "f***in roller coaster!"

A pair of jokesters from Prank vs. Prank pulled a fast one on some unsuspecting Target shoppers this Black Friday.
From the YouTube video, which in less than two days has earned over three million views: For the craziest shopping day of the year, Black Friday, we dressed up like employees from a store, to fool customers into thinking we worked there.
The nondescript, red polo-wearing Jesse and Ryan feigned incompetence, offered free goods, and even promised shady deals "out back."
It wasn't the first time a Target has been pranked on Black Friday. Last year, Greg Benson and Ryan Smith of Mediocre Films each wrote a list of ridiculous, made-up items and then tried to get Target employees to find them, according to Mashable.
Another Black Friday prank this year didn't go over so well. According to Fox, someone dropped a trash can from the upper level of a Dallas-area shopping mall, creating a loud noise that some shoppers confused with gunfire. Police were called...

Greg Benson of Mediocre Films and partner-in-crime Miles Grose were very mean to Whole Foods recently. They took to their local store, armed with grocery lists full of nonsense items written by each other. They didn't know what was on their list until they flipped each page.
Whoever laughs or gets kicked out first loses. Ready? Go!
We are still laughing about Beef Newtons, you guys.

Toby Rapson, son of midcentury architect Ralph Rapson, was working to put his father's classic designs back into production when he bumped into Loll designer and Chief Executive Greg Benson, whose company specializes in furniture made of recycled plastic. The meeting prompted Rapson to rethink his father's rocking chair as an eco-friendly outdoor rocker made from material.
"It became a collaboration between us and Loll to translate the chairs Ralph Rapson drew [pictured at right], to a new innovative project," Rapson-Inc. President Chris Reed said.
Rapson-Inc. reissued the modern Rapid Rocker at the end of last year and partnered with retailer YLiving to reintroduce the Rapson Greenbelt line of chairs. The 1939 Greenbelt rocker, pictured on the left at the top of the post, is $1,845 and was originally designed for manufacturer Knoll.
Prototypes of the high-backed armless Rapson Rocker for Loll ($999), pictured at top right, and low-back Rapson lounge chair with arms (...

Fire Chief Greg Benson said the department&#39;s first indication of a cause for the fire was a candle left burning in the bathroom. “But we got more information after [the homeowner&#39;s] wife got home,” Benson said, explaining that the husband called the

Lit candle ignites a bathroom at Valley View home - Kane County Chronicle

Google News - over 6 years

... River FPD estimated the fire and smoke caused about $5000 in damage to the home, with much damage centered on the home&#39;s bathroom and its exterior siding. The investigation into the fire is considered to be closed, Fox River FPD Chief Greg Benson said

Duluth&#39;s scenic beauty is why Greg Benson and his partners located their businesses — Epicurean Cutting Surfaces, Loll Designs and Intectural — high on Duluth&#39;s western hillside. “The place comes first. We decided to move our business here because of

Upon arrival, firefighters discovered a fire in a bedroom on the house&#39;s second floor, said Fox River FPD Chief Greg Benson. Firefighters had been alerted to the fire by someone living in the house. According to Benson, that resident had returned home

Fox River and Countryside Fire Protection District Chief Greg Benson said the drivers were alone in their cars, and each was taken to a different hospital, one to Delnor Hospital in Geneva and the other to Central DuPage Hospital in Winfield

Becker was brought on to the Guild by one of its producers, Kim Evey (Gorgeous Tiny Chicken Machine Show) after her husband and partner, Greg Benson, couldn&#39;t do it. Becker&#39;s directing experience was mostly with smaller crews of people he knew

District B-4 football preview: Kiefer looks to play team ball - NewsOK.com

Google News - over 6 years

They are also 260 pounds across the front line but head coach Greg Benson is all about team at Depew. “I don&#39;t talk about individuals,” Benson said. “We don&#39;t hold up individuals, those that can do their part do their part and that&#39;s all I ask them to

Andersen college scholarship led to a long career in banking - Minneapolis Star Tribune

Google News - over 6 years

In 1965, Greg Benson was a high school senior who desperately wanted to study at Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, Minn. He was working odd jobs that paid $2 to $3 per hour, but he knew that would not be nearly enough to pay the yearly tuition of

Squirrel, or The Origin of a Species (Redrum, 6 pm) — Greg Benson calls it a run “through a Baskin-Robbins of ideas” that&#39;s maybe still a little too clever for its own good, but forgives it that. Socrates the Lover (The Apothecary, 6 pm) — While this

“Wes is by far probably the best player of his age that I&#39;ve known,” said Greg Benson, director of South&#39;s jazz band. “The kind of things he&#39;s doing people don&#39;t do until later in high school or college.” Benson added that it&#39;s a challenge to keep Wes

District 303, Fox River and Countryside Fire Protection District to talk about ... - Kane County Chronicle

Google News - over 6 years

Fox River FPD Chief Greg Benson said he talked with administrators at District 303 several weeks ago about acquiring the land. Benson said he has asked the district to consider donating the land to the fire protection district

His most popular video as of early 2009 was episode 1 of the Gorgeous Tiny Chicken Machine Show, which was selected to be featured on YouTube shortly after being posted February 25, 2007, and subsequently drew nearly 2 million viewers.

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